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Letter Xx Worksheet
In this alphabet letter Xx worksheet, students practice the initial sound recognition of letter Xx, trace and write the letter Xx ten times each, write the initial letter of seven pictures and draw a picture of an item containing the...
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Brick Breaker: Initial Consonant Blends
Practice initial consonant blends with a fun, interactive game! Choose the sounds you'd like to practice, and then have kids place the appropriate pictures for their brick breaker boards. Spin the spinner to select a blended sound, and...
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Phonemic Awareness: Isolation
Teacher and class work together to build strong phonemic awareness. They say a series of words, isolate the initial phoneme, and say its sound. This lesson plan is super short but does have a decent extension activity suggestion.
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Initial Sounds
In this consonant sound worksheet, students focus on the initial sounds. Students say the names of eight pictures and draw a line from the picture to the initial sound and word for each.
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Letter Kk: Beginning Sound
In this beginning sound activity, students practice hearing the K sound at the beginning of words. Students are given 12 pictures and they are asked to color the ones that begin with the K sound.
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Initial sound: long e
In this long e learning exercise, students fill in the initial sound of the long e under the pictures that contain that sound. Students fill in the blank to 3 words.
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C or Ch sounds
In this c or ch learning exercise, students fill in the correct beginning sound to words with either c or ch. Students complete 8 problems where they fill in the correct sound.
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Word and Letter Practice #10
In this word and letter practice worksheet, students say letters and sounds of letters, practice reading simple sentences and sight words, then say names of pictures and say the beginning sound of each.
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Beginning Sounds
In this consonant instructional activity, 1st graders focus on initial sounds. Students study 9 pictures and circle the letter of the initial consonant sound that is heard for each.
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Introduce Onset-Rime Blending
Mico (or your favorite puppet) helps emergent readers recognize words from segmented phonemes. Explain to learners that he struggles with pronouncing words and needs their help. Model how Mico segments sounds in single-syllable words....
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Play I Spy
Pre-readers examine a rainy-day picture with many details to find words beginning with either p, u, w, or l. They tally the number of objects they find and write the numbers beside each letter. To help kids stay organized and meet...
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We’re a Family: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 3)
Pay special attention to onsets and rimes and initial consonants with this packet of activities designed to provide additional support to youngsters just learning to read and write.
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet
In this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students learn to recognize beginning letters of words as they look at the pictures of the duck, giraffe, fan and whale on the page and choose from the letters in a box associating the...
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Beginning Sounds
This sound fluency PowerPoint enables students to read the beginning sounds of "CVC" words. In this PowerPoint, students say the beginning sound of the word. There are illustrations on each slide to match the word that is given.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness
Kindergarteners and first graders alike are engaged as they learn the initial sounds of objects by taking turns flipping cards to form a long train. This complete and ready-to-print activity helps young ones build the basic foundations...
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Consonant Digraphs Make Beginning Sounds
In this creating words with consonant digraphs worksheet, students say the picture words, guess the letters that make the beginning sounds, circle the letters that make the middle vowels and final sounds, and write the words. Students...
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Phonemic Awareness
In these phonemic awareness activities worksheets, students demonstrate beginning sounds, and short a words. In these drawing, fill in the blank, matching, and cut and paste worksheets, students answer twenty-six words.
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Beginning Sound of Letter S
In this sound/letter activity, students practice tracing and writing the upper and lower case letter S. Next, students identify pictures that begin with the S sound.
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Beginning Sound of Letter P
In this worksheet on the letter P, students first practice tracing and writing the upper and lower case letter P. Next, students identify picture that begin with the P sound. Picture words are missing the beginning P only.
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Introduce /Q/
Everything your pre-readers need to know about the letter Q is right here; this strategy combines pronunciation, letter recognition, sound, and word examples. Scholars examine the letter shape and listen to you pronounce the /kwww/...
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Final Consonant Sounds: Review - ft, ld, lt, mp, nd
These are challenging phonics review sheets. On the first page, learners match the end sounds to the pictures and write a rhyming word for each word. For the second page, pupils choose an end sound to complete a series of incomplete...
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Ii- Beginning and Middle Sounds; Printing Practice
In this phonics and printing practice worksheet, students color outlines of the letters I and i. They same the names of 3 pictures while listening for the sound of the I at the beginning of the word. They say the name of three pictures...
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Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Blending
This resource is more of a suggestion than a full lesson. It explains how young pre-readers can work with their teacher to practice blending phonemes to make words. The class watches the teacher as she says and orally segments a word...
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Beginning Sounds Worksheet: Part 5
In this matching sounds worksheet, students draw a line from each letter that represents a specific beginning sound to the picture that illustrates it.